1. Alphonso Hart was a Republican politician from the US State of Ohio who was a US Representative, in the Ohio State Senate, and the 11th lieutenant governor of Ohio.
12 Facts About Alphonso Hart
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Alphonso Hart's father died when he was age twelve, and he was bound out to a farmer for three years.
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Alphonso Hart was admitted to the bar August 12,1851.
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Alphonso Hart moved to New Lisbon, Ohio, remained two years, and was then elected Assistant Clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives.
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Alphonso Hart purchased the Democratic newspaper "Portage Sentinel" in Ravenna, Ohio, which he edited until he sold it in 1857.
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Alphonso Hart served as prosecuting attorney for Portage County from 1861 to 1864, when he resigned.
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Alphonso Hart served as member of the Ohio Senate in 1865,1872, and 1874, and was the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1874 to 1876.
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Alphonso Hart was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress in the 12th district.
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Alphonso Hart was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-ninth Congress.
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Alphonso Hart served as Solicitor of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department from 1888 to 1892.
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Alphonso Hart resumed the practice of law in Washington, DC.
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Alphonso Hart died in 1910 and is interred in Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio US.